First Niagara Financial Group Incorporated operates in the Savings institutions, except federal sector. First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. provides a range of retail and commercial banking, as well as other financial services, through its wholly owned bank subsidiary, First Niagara Bank, N.A. (the Bank). First Niagara is a community bank in Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, providing its customers with consumer and commercial banking services, including residential and commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans and leases, consumer loans, wealth management products, as well as retail and commercial deposit products. It also offers insurance and employee benefits consulting services, through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank. On April 15, 2011, the Company acquired NewAlliance Bancshares, Inc. On April 9, 2010, the Company acquired Harleysville National Corporation. In
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